Improvement in ear-rings



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Ear-Rings. 510,148,086q Patented March 3,1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. PIERCE, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN EAR-RINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,086, dated March 3, 1874; application filed February 2, 1874.

To all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. PIERCE, of the city and county of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ear-Rings; and I do hereby declare that the following specication, taken in connection with the drawings making a part of the same7 is a full7 clear, and

' exact` description thereof.

Figure l is a side elevation of my invention.'

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the old-style earring knob. Fig. 3 is an elevation, showing the old-style ear-rin g with its drop disarranged.

The present invention relates to an improvement in that class of ear-rings which are composed of two or inore parts, known in the art as Suspenders, or knobs and drops.. The object of my invention is to construct the knobsuspending hook or ring of an ear-ring so that it will be impossible for its drop to be suspended in any other position than that in which it was intended to be.

A in-the drawing represents the knob of the ear-ring; C, the ear-wire. The knob A in Fig. 2 is representedwith the old style of a ring or hook, d, to which is connected the drop e, Fig.

3. It is obvious that, should the drop e be turned around, (as it is liable to be when connected to the old-style knob-hook,) that it will take the position shown in Fig. 3, either to the Y right or left of the perpendicular center of the ear-ring, and there lodge itself, to the annoyance of the wearer. Y Y

In Fig. l, the knob A is represented as being provided with a hook, a, having its outer edge extended perpendicularly toward the top of the knob, which arrangement as obviously shows that it would be impossible for the drop e, when connected to the said knob A by means of its hook a, to be disarranged.`

Having thus described my improvement, 

